Yesterdays · Guns N' Roses

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
YESTERDAYS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16 and 16 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 33 keep time, 23 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-33.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLCZAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yesterdays?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Yesterdays hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Yesterdays?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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